Zoom with Speaker Jennifer Lee, Columbia University
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The fastest growing ethno-racial group in the United States, Asian Americans are the most highly educated, the highest earning, and the most likely to intermarry. Once deemed diseased, morally bankrupt, and unfit for citizenship, Asian Americans have attained unprecedented racial mobility, now boasting educational and economic outcomes that surpass those of native-born whites. Their socioeconomic attainment has led some social scientists to speculate that Asians are rapidly assimilating into American mainstream and remaking it in the process. While Asian American attainment defies theories of racial disadvantage, their experiences with xenophobia, racism, and anti-Asian violence vex theories of assimilation — pointing to an assimilation paradox